Artist Opportunity Grant 2015
The Artist Opportunity Grant program invests in professional development opportunities for individual professional artists.
In the first quarter of 2015, the Artist Opportunity Grant program invested $17,951 in 13 artists. During this period, 22 artists applied for a total of $46,045 in eligible requests. The recipients were:
- Carissa Baktay, Solo Exhibition in Mote de Caprica, Portugal
- Steven Cottingham, Berlin Residency
- Jennifer Crighton, i.s.l.a.n.d. Hill House Residency
- Jeff Cruz, Exhibition for Contact Festival in Toronto
- Michèle Cusson, Moscow American Masters Academy of Opera
- Alison DeRegt, MCCP Workshops
- Ellen Doty, Folk Alliance Showcase 2015
- Cheryl Foggo, Zora Neale Hurston Festival Presentation
- Sara Girletz, Residency at Sointula Art Shed
- Natalie Gauthier, Clown Farm
- Eveline Kolijn, Vorres Museum Residency
- Eric Rose, Prague Quadrennial
- Kyle Whitehead, KIAC Film Festival Residency
In the second quarter of 2015, the Artist Opportunity Grant program invested $16,744 in nine artists. During this period, 20 artists applied for a total of $43,378 in eligible requests. The recipients were:
- Derek Michael Besant, Edinburgh International Arts Festival
- Courtney Charnock, Performing in Prague Quadrennial
- Jennifer Konanz, Gold Leaf Workshop
- Michael Peterson, Cannes Short Film Corner
- Chelsea Rushton, Architecture, Culture and Spirituality Symposium
- Elisa Sereno-Janz, NoiseBorder Residency
- Zahra Shahab, TransFormation Danse
- Kathryn Smith, Americana Song Academy
- Chantal Wall, TransFormation Danse
Note: starting in the third quarter of 2015, the Artist Opportunity Grant program established set deadlines for each intake period. Previously, applications were accepted and assessed throughout the intake period.
In the third quarter of 2015, the Artist Opportunity Grant program invested $20,755 in 11 artists. During this period, 39 artists applied for a total of $81,191 in eligible requests. The recipients were:
- Alyssa Ellis, Biophilia Residency
- Craig Fahner, Device Art Triennial Exhibition in Zagreb, Croatia
- Patrick Finn, Writer in Residence
- Tamara Himmelspach, Urban Access to Aboriginal Art
- Mark Hopkins, New Aesthetics Performance Intensive
- Ian McFarlane, Bread and Puppet Apprenticeship
- Meghann Michalsky, Dance Opportunities in Amsterdam, Vienna and Berlin
- Sally Raab, Exhibition at Nuit Blanche Edmonton
- Lara Schmitz, PUSH Physical Theatre Summer Intensive
- Sharon Stevens, Invitation to Present Digital Shrine in Halifax, NS & Tucson, AZ
- Brittany Tough, Annapolis Basin Watercolour Symposium
In the fourth quarter of 2015, the Artist Opportunity Grant program invested $19,928 in 11 artists. During this period, 33 artists applied for a total of $62,088 in eligible requests.
- Emily Promise Allison, Banff Centre Artist Residency
- Meghan Conley, Aesthetics, Ethics, and Biopolitics of the Posthuman Conference in Aarhus, Denmark
- Col Cseke, Travel Assistance to North Vancouver
- derek beaulieu, Reading at Ronnells Antikvariat in Stockholm, Sweden
- Rob Oxoby, Composition Lessons with Douglas Gibson and Anthony Coleman, in New York city
- Pamela Tzeng, Nomadic College Brazil, Intensive Training in Axis Syllabus
- Karen Ho Fatt, Institute of Mosaic Arts in Berkeley California
- August Murphy, Robert Dick Residential Studio in New York
- Alia Shahab, Artist Residency at Sachaqa Centro de Arte in San Roque de Cumbaza, Peru
- Mia Rushton, Residency at Grand Union in Birmingham, England
- Laura Wayne, Film Exhibition at Dok Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany
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